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Gregor Reisch was a Carthusian prior and confessor to the emperor Maximilian I. In 1503, in Freiburg he published a book entitled Margarita philosophica (Philosophical Pearl) which provides an introduction to the liberal arts and philosophy. Margarita philosophica follows the Aristotelian pattern of philosophy as was typical for medieval textbooks and covers a wide range of topics, not only the trivium and quadrivium but also the traditional branches of philosophy, i.e., logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, and moral philosophy. Reisch’s Philosophical Pearl contains many instructive woodcuts and was often used as a textbook at universities, in Northern Europe in particular. It was reprinted many times during the sixteenth century and became one of the most influential books of that period.
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Nejeschleba, T. (2017). Reisch, Gregor. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_554-1
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